E. H. Young

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As well as eleven middle-brow novels, published between 1910 and shortly after the Second World War and most of them fine examples of the twentieth-century domestic style, EHY wrote stories and poems printed in magazines, and two books for children. Her novels were a popular success, doing well in cheap reprint series and in radio readings and dramatizations.

Milestones

21 March 1880

Emily Hilda Young was born at Whitley in Northumberland, the middle one among seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By 20 June 1910

EHY published her first novel, A Corn of Wheat, with Heinemann : the only one of her books not to be re-issued in the USA.
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate.
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Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
330, 309, 312

By 30 April 1925

EHY changed her publisher to Jonathan Cape for her next novel, William, which ten years later appeared as one of the first ten titles under the new Penguin imprint.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
330, 308

By 25 July 1947

EHY 's last novel, Chatterton Square, appeared after many years of gruelling work on it.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
330, 312

8 August 1949

EHY died from lung cancer at Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire, after several years of illness.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
312
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

Biography

Birth and Family

21 March 1880

Emily Hilda Young was born at Whitley in Northumberland, the middle one among seven children.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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